Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to immortalize a person, a locality, or even an inanimate object, is to have some near great poet commemorate its existence in deathless verse. At once tables are erected, little fences constructed, and the lives of prominent visitors made tedious with tours of inspection, personally conducted by a legal and enthusiastic peasantry. Unfortunately; however, human nature is of so frail a cast that when a poet has exercised his skill on behalf of some deserving object. Impostures are promptly brought into being by envious souls yearning for similar redirected glory, who also erect tablets, construct fences, and annoy automobilists...
...Embassy for Sovietland and thus evinces a desire to establish the Soviet regime as lawful heir to that of the Tsars. The British Government favors M. Rakovsky's contention, but the whole matter was exciting a good 'deal of comment and was further complicated by obscure legal points...
Thirty pirates were arrested by Chinese authorities and charged with attacking British ships in South China waters. To avoid legal proceedings, useless fuss and bother, two were shot in public, the remainder were enrolled in Sun Yat-Sen's army to be shot by the enemy...
...edict of The Faith Tabernacle, the entire sect has refused the services of local physicians; medical science is barred from the homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people against the calling of physicians...
...Further legal assistance of the poor...